Aquatic Inference Engine

Step 1. Make photocopies of your favorite crosswerdz {USAToday, NYTimes (monday!), WSJ (facist!)}, two apiece.
Step 2. Obtain an amenable female|male, probably bookish, but certainly with a minimal literary and/or puzzle-ing bent.
Step 3. Determine a mutually agreeable location {eg. coffee shop (duh.), library (boston public…not bad), park (if sunny), bar/pub/restaurant (locals only), other…}
Step 4. Endeavour to [...]

I hate links to sites requiring registration, but this article (and the Super! Happy Fun-Time! gogo 80s annual report photograph along for the ride) is such a great cross-section of P.T. Barnum World’s Fair (read article for iroNY) hokum

You’re eight kinds of trouble now baby
You’re eight kinds of trouble

for the fun things to do that won’t cost you a cent column…
pickout a favorite picture (it can be anything really, as long as you can hold it straight out in front of your face no problem, but pictures are my favorite) and hold it out in front of your face as far as you [...]

smile.
like lil’ orphan Annie sez.
also more Hubble luvvin’ we’re now only 800 Million Years from the beginning of time…no new friends though. {if I were a web-wizard, I’d make a “COUNTDOWN TO THE DAWN OF TIME” clock as one of those neat little java apps everyone could put up on their webpage and stare [...]